When it comes to managing access control, both physical and logical, it can be easy to encounter a build-up of user data across a variety of software platforms. This information build-up, often disorganized and overwhelming, can be difficult to work with, especially if you are trying to manage unique user log-ins and access permissions across multiple platforms at once. Luckily, ProdataKey (PDK) offers an integration with Microsoft Entra ID that can not only help administrators to consolidate information and chip away at that build-up, but it will increase your overall security and safety when it comes to online and on-location access.
Microsoft Entra ID:
An Identity and Access Management Solution
Microsoft Entra ID, formerly known as the Azure Active Directory, is a widely-used identity and access management solution. The primary job of this cloud-based tool is to consolidate identity services into a single provider. With Entra ID, IT administrators have a centralized place to provide employees access to external resources, such as the Microsoft Azure portal, Microsoft 365, and a variety of other cloud-based applications. This eliminates the need to store and remember logics for multiple services and apps, greatly reducing the amount of data that needs to be managed on a daily basis. Microsoft Entra ID works on the basis of a Zero Trust security strategy, a model that functions on the assumption that users should by default be denied access to a given location or platform until they are granted access permissions by an authorized administrator.
Altogether, Entra ID serves a dual purpose: consolidating user identity and log-in data, and heightening cloud-based security in order to eliminate the risks of cyber threats and attacks.
Microsoft Entra ID Integration:
Synchronization With ProdataKey
Through an integration with Entra ID, it’s now easier than ever to input user data, groups and permissions into the ProdataKey platform. Through the innovative PDK.io 2.0 interface, users can be quickly and easily imported directly from an existing Entra ID database into a ProdataKey system.
The compatibility of the two systems ensures accuracy and consistency when managing large amounts of data, reducing the overall administrative work and data entry required by IT administrators.
Summit Technology, a PDK partner and IT provider specializing in helping small businesses, has integrated Entra ID into a variety of PDK-secured spaces, such as medical offices. Through this integration, partners like Summit Technology can not only bring together physical and logical security in end-users’ businesses, but they can do so knowing that all of the information they need to work with is in one place, rather than spread across an abundance of databases and softwares. “There’s no question of how many systems users are in or what they have access to – it’s just right here in Entra, in one place,” says Chris Dearing, a physical security engineer from Summit Technology. The easy synchronization between the Entra ID and ProdataKey interfaces is a particular highlight of this integration, according to Chris:
“Using Entra – being able to create those security groups in the cloud and to have that easy integration between other cloud systems – makes something like access control so easy. To control that access, to onboard customers, to give them permissions and the abilities they need… it’s just simple, easy, all in one place; a lot simpler to manage.”
Chris Dearing - Physical Security Engineer at Summit Technology
Another highlight of the ProdataKey and Entra ID integration is its accessibility for end-users. Chris explains, “with the Entra integration, it’s a lot easier for the customer side to set up themselves and to manage their own internal IT department.” Rather than working with an overwhelming, disorganized abundance of data and software, with the Entra ID integration users have one synchronized and simple interface from which they can control every aspect of their digital and physical access.
If you’re faced with an overwhelming amount of software and information when it comes to your access control systems, ProdataKey’s Entra ID integration offers a simple solution.
To learn more about this integration and all of your access control needs, schedule a demo today.
